Carl Riemann

Carl Riemann , also Karl Riemann (born September 4, 1785 in Schwerin , † May 7, 1843 in Boizenburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Carl Riemann was the older son of Friedrich Justus Gottlob Riemann (1752–1809), who was active as cantor at the time of his birth, and the pastor's daughter Luise Karoline, née. Schmideke (1757-1827). Heinrich Arminius Riemann was his younger brother.

He grew up in the time to Mecklenburg-Strelitz belonging Domhof Ratzeburg on. His father was first vice rector, then from 1789 rector of the cathedral school . When the father was appointed pastor of St. Laurentius Church in 1801, the family moved to Schönberg (Mecklenburg) .

After graduating from the cathedral school in Ratzeburg in 1803, where he was particularly influenced by Johann Wilhelm Bartholomäus Rußwurm , Riemann studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle . He graduated at Easter 1806, before the French troops stormed the city in October and the university closed. He first went to his uncle, who was the pastor in Berga (Kyffhäuser) , and worked briefly for Count Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Roßla as an interpreter and preacher in Roßla. In the summer of 1806 he returned to Mecklenburg and, as was customary at the time, worked as a private tutor, among other things in the household of Landdrosten von Wendland in Schwerin for his step-sons. At the beginning of 1813 he was appointed vice rector of the cathedral school in Ratzeburg, but gave up this position after a short time in order to serve as field preacher for the Mecklenburg volunteer hunters in the wars of liberation from April . With them he experienced the heavy losses battle near Sehestedt in December 1813. In September 1814 he received his farewell.

In 1815 he became pastor and prepositor in Boizenburg. From 1818 he published numerous articles in the Freimüthigen Abendblatt . From 1818 to 1821 his brother Heinrich Arminius lived with him, who was affected by the persecution of demagogues because of his fraternity activities . In 1835 he was a founding member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

From 1826 he was married to Sophie, geb. Dreves, widowed Werner.

Works

• Field hymn book for the two ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin volunteer hunter corps. 1813
• (posthumously) Fifteen sermons. Boizenburg 1844

literature

• Nekrolog, in Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen 21 / I (1843), Weimar 1845, pp. 375–381
• Stephan Sehlke: The spiritual Boizenburg. Education and the educated from the Boizenburg area from the 13th century to 1945 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-0423-2 , p. 357
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8177 .

Web links

• Literature about Carl Riemann in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence